The 50 Best Blaxploitation Movies of All Time

Complex: Ah, the '70s. Before hip-hop was a gleam in Kool Herc's eye, pop culture still had more hustlers, gangsters, and pimps than Calvin Butts could drive a steamroller over. And we're not even talking about the Nixon administration—we're talking about blaxploitation! Yes, that most righteous of movie genres, in which anyone with a high kick and an Afro was out to either a) help their community out from under The Man's thumb or b) keep their community under their own thumb.